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Scenario 2 is where you would be outed as a time traveller.
Scenario 1 is where you would be outed as a witch.
Not sure witch would happen first.
Well with scenario 1, it would be fairly quick because people speak way different now than 500 years ago.
They will also likely speak way different in 500 years than we do now. We have an idea what 1523 English sounded like. 2523 is uncharted territory.
Hell, I have trouble understanding young people right now. I'm not trying to dunk on them, I'm just old.
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Why are you sour?
because random name generator
In the early 2000s the Globe in London did productions of Shakespeare in the original pronunciation.
Here is how the opening of Romeo and Juliet would have sounded.
That sort of reminds me of West Country. Yarp.
He does for this in.
Yes, there is a definite similarity there.
I agree. Also, if the climate catastrophe unfolds as predicted, there will be a return to intense regionalization of dialects because people will live in smaller groups and have less contact with outsiders.